The role of the Environment Agency in flood risk management and funding for schemes.

John Woods Flood Risk Advisor 29 October 2014 Flood Risk

 Two million properties are at risk of flooding of which 250,000 at risk within our committee area

 Many people think that flooding will never happen to them. If you live on a floodplain, your home is more likely to be flooded that it is to catch fire.

Right: Bridgehouse Beck flooded a number of properties in , – 10th August 2004 Properties at Risk in District

• 5,606 Total • 1,807 homes and 687 businesses at Significant Risk • 798 homes and 331 businesses at Moderate Risk • 694 homes and 268 businesses at Low Risk • 18,502 properties at risk from Surface Water Key Communities at Risk (properties)

• Shipley (830) • (196) • Burley in (145) • (143) • Worth Village and Aireworth (135) • (98) What we do to reduce flood risk

• Regulatory activity • Flood forecasting and warning • Flood risk mapping and modelling • Emergency response • Maintenance • Investment justification • Improvements and new schemes Flood Warnings

• 23 Flood Warning Areas • 2653 Properties • 1294 Fully Registered • 49% • 1781 Potentially Warned (Number gained from telephone company) • 67% Potential Schemes Identified

Project Location Houses potentially benefitting Cottingley and Branksome Drive Flood 69 Alleviation Scheme, River Aire

Ilkley - - Backstone Beck Culvert 55 Improvements

Ilkley - River Wharfe - Denton Road Flood 88 Alleviation Scheme

Saltaire to Holmes River Aire 329 Road, Utley, Keighley 35 Funding and Partnership Working

• DEFRA Flood Defence Grant in Aid • RFCC Local Levy • Partnership Funding Contributions • Region LEP • Developer Contributions / CIL • BID • Working with Communities More schemes can proceed Previous ‘All or nothing’ system New approach

Value Projects delivering 100% funded for best value for Funding on offer money money = to all projects, at ~100% funded fixed rates per £1 of benefit Projects delivering achieved... relatively lower value for money = ...as long as deferred or 0% cost savings or funded other funding found to meet the remainder

% costs met by FCRM GiA % costs met by FCRM GiA 100% 100%

99 West : Risk & Previous Investment

5,606 16,390 Leeds 7,541 Kirklees Properties at Risk Wakefield (Source: NaFRA 2013) 8,746 Calderdale 10,763 Bradford

126 484 2,184 Leeds Combined FDGiA & Local Levy 17,590 Kirklees 18,164 Wakefield Expenditure Calderdale Previous 5 years (£k) Bradford

Note: Excludes Growth Funding : Planned Investment & Forecast

6,401 Leeds FDGiA & Local Levy Funding 1,453 11,411 Kirklees Years 1 - 5 (£k) Wakefield 9,390 Calderdale Bradford

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• Strategies, Plans, Historic and Local Information • Liaise with all RMA’s to agree local priorities and partnership arrangements I.D Risks • Understand the options to reduce flood risk and impact on scheme cost

• Calculate the FDGiA funding that could be applicable • Assess how Local Levy could be used I.D Funding Sources • Identify other potential sources of funding available

• Agree local priorities with partners (West Yorks Partnership meeting) • Submit scheme bids for funding through the MTP process Bid for Allocation • Seek approval from YRFCC

• Develop Project Mandate or Business Case Business Case • Submit to relevant authorising body for sign off prior to works commencing Approval How much could each project get? The PF Calculator is used to estimate how much FCRM GiA a scheme is eligible for.

Three aspects of a project will determine the amount of national funding available: Household benefits (better protection from flooding and coastal erosion) Environmental benefits Other benefits e.g. businesses, agricultural land, infrastructure Outcome Measures – Overall benefits and Flood risk OM1 The ratio of the whole life present value benefits (Pvb) to the whole life present value costs (PVc) from projects in the FCRM GiA capital investment programme OM2 The number of households moved out of any one of the four flood probability categories to a lower one (for all sources of flooding) OM2b The number of households moved out of the very significant or significant flood probability categories to moderate or low risk.

OM2c The number of households in the 20% most deprived areas moved out of the significant or very significant probability categories to moderate or low risk.

For Households to be counted under OM2, b & c they must incur direct damage i.e. flood water over the threshold Outcome payment rates

OM Qualifying outcomes/benefits Payment rate

OM1 Present value of whole-life benefits of the current investment, 5.56p per £1 of less benefits or payments associated with the other outcome qualifying benefit measures below OM2 Households better protected against flood risk: –In the 20% most deprived areas 45p per £1 –In the 21-40% most deprived areas 30p per £1 –In the 60% least deprived areas 20p per £1

OM3 Households better protected against coastal erosion: –In the 20% most deprived areas 45p per £1 –In the 21-40% most deprived areas 30p per £1 –In the 60% least deprived areas 20p per £1

OM4 Statutory environmental obligations met: –Hectares of water-dependent habitat created or improved £15,000 per hectare –Hectares of inter-tidal habitat created £50,000 per hectare –Kilometres of protected river improved £80,000 per kilometre

15 How does it work? Example: Reducing flood risk (OM2) Numbers of households in each risk band are counted, before and after the investment takes place e.g. for 125 households moved to the Moderate risk band

Before investment: After investment:

Households directly at risk 0 25 100 125

M S VS M S VS Households counted separately for each of 3 deprivation levels 20% most deprived, 21-40% most deprived, 60% least deprived Payment rates per £1 of present value benefit: 20% most deprived 45p per £1 21-40% most deprived 30p per £1 60% least deprived 20p per £1

16 Reducing flood risk (OM2) continued Benefits are achieved whenever expected damages to household property and possessions are reduced Flood damages are currently assumed to be £30,000 per household, per event Calculation of damages avoided: Very Risk band: SignificantModerateLow significant

Assumed annual likelihood of flooding: 5%2.5%1%0.5%

Expected annual damages: £1500£750£300£150

After £1350 annual benefit (damage avoided) Before

Central Government pays towards After £150 annual benefit a fifth share of these benefits (payments higher in more deprived areas) 17 Safeguards to make it work

Only households directly at risk of flooding/erosion counted (water across threshold) Otherwise households on upper floors of apartment buildings, or those where only services could be affected, would qualify for the same amount of funding Grant rates capped at 45%, for all delivery bodies, unless there is a clear approach to avoid the double-counting of households between investments Otherwise we may pay several times to protect the same households Approach to climate change taken into account when setting duration of benefit Mitigate now or adapt later New housing and development built after January 2012 not counted at all Otherwise there would be a financial incentive to build on the flood plain

18 Property Level Protection works

FCRM GiA funding worked out on same basis as for other methods of reducing flooding Default assumptions for the calculator if no better information available assume the houses move from a very significant to significant flood risk. assume that the duration of benefits is 20 years.